Halcyon

Kuir

Halcyon

I can be queer without touching you. I can be queer without holding you. Without smelling you. Or ever tasting you.

I might forget how the light weaves itself through the knots in your hair or the dimples of your stomach, frowning from its weight; how your hand, lying upon your waist, rests flat and still. But you could look right through me, gazing back into a black mirror, and freeze time with your eyes alone.

Though I never saw the sunlight melt into your goosebumps... Yes-even then,

I can be queer without touching you. I can be queer without seeing you. I can be queer if I never hear your honeyed voice again. I would remember the sweetest words anyone has ever spoken to me.

For it was never my flesh you held, but every thread of my unloved being shredded from the darkness of my burning core. This, you will always have.

Kuir is simultaneously published with the Walang Hiya Collective.

Halcyon (they/them) is a non-binary, queer artist of Mexican and Pin@y descent. They’re also an online sex worker, student, and artist. Their work centers the erotic and sensual, as these are realms they believe to be some of the most powerful in reclaiming one’s sexuality, spirituality, and autonomy. They advocate for the re-indigenization of our cultures, land, and communities as well as the dismantling of our imperial and capitalist systems that reign transnationally. Twitter: @theekingfisher, website: kingfisherdays.com, email: theekingfisher@gmail.com